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DIAZ VILLARREAL, William. The Classic and Tradition in Paul Valéry, T. S. Eliot and Walter Benjamin. Lit. teor. hist. crit. [online]. 2016, vol.18, n.1, pp.121-146. ISSN 0123-5931.  https://doi.org/10.15446/lthc.v18n1.54682.

This work describes the meaning of the idea of the classic in three authors: Paul Valéry, T. S. Eliot and Walter Benjamin. For the first, the classic entails the imposition of an order beyond the disorder of natural material, while the second uses organic metaphors to conceive it as the result of a state of maturity of a given culture. These two meanings converge in a negative way in the ideas of Benjamin, whose perspective is marked by the idea of redemption; he devalues, as it were, the traditional meaning of classic but, by conceiving it as a collection of ruins, he tries to detonate its revolutionary possibilities.

Palabras clave : the classic; tradition; Paul Valery; T. S. Eliot; Walter Benjamin.

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